Supermicro X11 LGA3647 boards have been announced

[religiouslyconfused]

https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/#3647
https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/#3647

It appears that Supermicro has their new X11 LGA3647 boards for scalable Xeon CPU's. There will be UP and DP versions and for the first time a Micro ATX board for those who want something a bit more powerful than a LGA1151 system but want to stay within MicroATX. There will be models with Gigabit and 10GBe LAN for those who need the best in lan performance.

Edit: SAS is on the X11SPH boards which are ATX sized.

 

[Stux]

One of the more interesting things about the new Xeons is that 10gbe seems to be available from the PCH, much like the XeonD 'SoC'

 

[religiouslyconfused]

It does look like a compelling platform if you need a bunch of CPU cores and run a ton of drives, or VM servers. Even those who want to virtualize FreeNAS. You can even get SFP+ if that is how you want to rollout 10gbit ethernet.

 

[Ericloewe]

I'm not impressed.

The platform was shifted way upmarket and adds significant cost over Xeon E5 for the low-end. And it's more confusing than ever.

 

[religiouslyconfused]

I'm not impressed.

The platform was shifted way upmarket and adds significant cost over Xeon E5 for the low-end. And it's more confusing than ever.

I think a LGA2066 Skylake-E server platform would have made a lot more sense for the low end servers that need more power than E3 but still can fit in an ATX case.

 

[Ericloewe]

I think a LGA2066 Skylake-E server platform would have made a lot more sense for the low end servers that need more power than E3 but still can fit in an ATX case.

Yes. I think Intel is going to end up releasing something to fill in the gap they left. Might be Xeon-D or something closer to the traditional Xeon E5 line.

 

[Stux]

Yes. I think Intel is going to end up releasing something to fill in the gap they left. Might be Xeon-D or something closer to the traditional Xeon E5 line.

Either that, or AMD is going to be the new sweet spot...

 

[Ericloewe]

Either that, or AMD is going to be the new sweet spot...

They're also doing the very-high-end stuff, so no luck there, for now.

 

[Stux]

They're also doing the very-high-end stuff, so no luck there, for now.

Yeah, but they're not playing games with ECC and they do go down to 4c4t. At the high end you're paying $62 per core.